LBA Respawn?

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

In CHS, I disbanded a P-40B squadron into another and in 90 days it came back at San Fran with "free" P-40B that filled up the squadron. Saw that and stopped it as it seemed gamey to me.

I read somewhere around here that Allied air reinforcements get free planes (they don't come out of the pool). I know for a fact that's not the case with the Japanese. Don't really know if it's true or not.

i have my doubts... i know that if i start disbanding squadrons, some of the reinforcements start to show up with "strange" aircraft that i wouldn't have expected. Trying to figure out what is going on with so many units with so many different aircraft can be extremely time consuming (and/or frustrating).

In order to do a good job of it, you'd have to check transfers of aircraft between reinforcement squadrons EVERY DAY (and for every squadron). Personally, i haven't thought it worth the effort.

[Andy Mac]

Allied air REINFORCEMENT Groups i.e. ones arriving from another theatre arrive with a full complement of planes and these are not drawn from the pool. e.g. RAF Hurrican Sqns from the Middle East, US Bomber Groups when newly built.

Japanese air REINFORCEMENT Groups i.e. ones newly built need to be filled out by production to appear so these are drawn from the pool.

Disbanded, Withdrawn or overun reconstitutions of sqns for both sides draw planes from the pool. (e.g sqns over run in the PI or Malaya)

So when calculating the actual number of P40's etc the allies recieve you cannot simply take 12 x 40 for a years production it has to be 12 x 40 plus all newly arriving REINFORCEMENT groups

Andy

ORIGINAL: Mike Solli

ORIGINAL: ny59giants

In CHS, I disbanded a P-40B squadron into another and in 90 days it came back at San Fran with "free" P-40B that filled up the squadron. Saw that and stopped it as it seemed gamey to me.

I read somewhere around here that Allied air reinforcements get free planes (they don't come out of the pool). I know for a fact that's not the case with the Japanese. Don't really know if it's true or not.

[Mike Solli]

There we are.  Thanks, Andy.

[bradfordkay]

Andy, can you think of why in my CHS 2.08 PBEM I had a USAAF F5A squadron show up equipped with CW-22s?

[Andy Mac]

Basically because the game is stoopid...
 
Dutch C22's upgrade to F5's but US recon Sqns dont ever start out as C22's but they may have the C22 as a downgrade option - only none of them ever arrive with them so they dont.
 
But the link is there
 
Technically they are on the upgrade chain at the bottom for both USAAF and Dutch.
 
If the F5 sqn was arriving as a new reinfocement I am baffled the only thing I can think is it was set to arrive with zero planes and a forced downgrade somehow happened.
 
It is more logical to have occured if its a reconstitution or a disbanded sqn
I would caveat this that I never played CHS so dont know that game well

[rtrapasso]

ORIGINAL: Andy Mac

Basically because the game is stoopid...

Dutch C22's upgrade to F5's but US recon Sqns dont ever start out as C22's but they may have the C22 as a downgrade option - only none of them ever arrive with them so they dont.

But the link is there

Technically they are on the upgrade chain at the bottom for both USAAF and Dutch.

If the F5 sqn was arriving as a new reinfocement I am baffled the only thing I can think is it was set to arrive with zero planes and a forced downgrade somehow happened.

It is more logical to have occured if its a reconstitution or a disbanded sqn
I would caveat this that I never played CHS so dont know that game well

This is the problem i spoke of earlier... if you have disbanded units show up, they can soak up the planes meant for new squadrons, so you have "strange" planes showing up (like the CW-22 for squadrons normally supplied with F5As...